Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (r.), station honorary secretary, and Herbert Rand (I.), branch vice-chairman, with Clare Francis who opened the station's new ILB boathouse on June 2, unveiling a plaque commemorating a gift from Saab... - View image in PDF
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Mr and Mrs Flint, from Aylesbury, hand delivered their Severn class model to Poole HQ.. - View image in PDF
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NORTH SUNDERLAND. — The fishingcobles Morning Star and Mary and Dan, of North Snnderland, were overtaken by a heavy sea while fishing on the 8th January, and, as they were in danger, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1.15 P.M., and...
ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of eighty tons of slag.
Her crew was a skipper and a mate.
They intended to go over Bideford Bar for the night, but...
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DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
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THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
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Fig 4: (below) Web frames, stringers, engine bearers and keelson are all now in place. The shape of the propeller tunnels, aft, is already emerging.. - View image in PDF
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Lottery Draw The winning tickets for the 63rd national lottery were drawn at RNLI headquarters on Sunday 31 October 1993 by Peter Jones, chairman of the Civil Service Motoring Association and Colin Frizzell, chairman of Frizzell Financial...
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EXPENDITURE.
LIFE-BOATS :—• New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Longhope, Montrose, New Brighton, Pie! (Barrow), Plymouth, Porthdinllaen, Ramsgate, Southwold, Stromness, Wexfacd,...
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At this Highland retreat, Springer Spaniel ‘rent-a-dogs’ Ben and Sam, and until recently Old Mac (pictured), are available to escort you on walks.. - View image in PDF
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